[SCM] WebKit Debian packaging branch, debian/unstable, updated. debian/1.1.15-1-40151-g37bb677

[hyatt]

The following commit has been merged in the debian/unstable branch:
commit def5007bdbf9173883e825c8be2552e76f1d7c51
Author: hyatt <hyatt at 268f45cc-cd09-0410-ab3c-d52691b4dbfc>
Date:   Fri Feb 7 18:16:31 2003 +0000

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    git-svn-id: http://svn.webkit.org/repository/webkit/trunk@3596 268f45cc-cd09-0410-ab3c-d52691b4dbfc

diff --git a/WebCore/khtml/rendering/render_object.cpp b/WebCore/khtml/rendering/render_object.cpp
index aecc4eb..76bc211 100644
--- a/WebCore/khtml/rendering/render_object.cpp
+++ b/WebCore/khtml/rendering/render_object.cpp
@@ -1000,8 +1000,16 @@ RenderObject *RenderObject::container() const
 {
     EPosition pos = m_style->position();
     RenderObject *o = 0;
-    if( pos == FIXED )
-	o = root();
+    if( pos == FIXED ) {
+        // container() can be called on an object that is not in the
+        // tree yet.  We don't call root() since it will assert if it
+        // can't get back to the root.  Instead we just walk as high up
+        // as we can.  If we're in the tree, we'll get the root.  If we
+        // aren't we'll get the root of our little subtree (most likely
+        // we'll just return 0).
+        o = parent();
+        while ( o && o->parent() ) o = o->parent();
+    }
     else if ( pos == ABSOLUTE )
 	o = containingBlock();
     else

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